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strongly-typed-thoughts blog
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strongly-typed-thoughts blog is a personal blog at phaazon.net about programming and design. Since 2018, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its editor writing, including a post on why Helix has grown while Kakoune stays niche, and notes on switching from Vim to Helix. Commenters also cite its discussion of Emacs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-05-25
- My thoughts about editors in (early) 20212 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-23
- On impl blocks, injection and surjection in Rust2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-20
- The Philosophy of Kakoune Editor2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-24
- My Thoughts about Editors in 20222 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-01
What Hacker News says?
I use kakoune, and don't understand why helix seems to be taking off while kakoune (which predated and inspired helix) remains niche. Kakoune fully embraces the unix philosophy, even going so far as relying on OS (or terminal-multiplexer, e.g. kitty or tmux) for window management (via client/sever, so each kakoune instance can still share state like open buffers). A comparison going into the differences (and embraci…
Comment linking /blog/more-hindsight-vim-helix-kakoune
on “Notes on switching to Helix from Vim”Submitted Development Environments as a story · 124 points
HN discussionA prominent Kakoune contributor wrote up a great blog post exploring that question here: https://phaazon.net/blog/more-hindsight-vim-helix-kakoune
Comment linking /blog/more-hindsight-vim-helix-kakoune
on “Why Kakoune – The Quest For a Better Code Editor”Submitted My thoughts about editors in 2020 as a story · 48 points
HN discussionThe author did mention emacs in the previous article where he talked about editors. > The reason I didn’t stick around Emacs was basically because of its runtime choice, and ultimately, its Lisp ecosystem. The Emacs community is one of the best I have been talking to, and they have really, really talented people working on insanely complex topics, like turning Elisp code into native code (via C), including Emacs its…
Comment linking /blog/editors-in-2022
on a deleted threadSubmitted The Philosophy of Kakoune Editor as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zig; what I think after months of using it as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted My thoughts about editors in (early) 2021 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted On dealing with owning and borrowing in public interfaces in Rust as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted On impl blocks, injection and surjection in Rust as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted My thoughts about editors in (early) 2021 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Development Environments as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let’s talk about C++ constructors as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflections about Note-Taking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Kakoune Philosophy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted More hindsight on Vim, helix and kakoune as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Thoughts about Editors in 2022 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My thoughts about editors (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My thoughts about editors in 2020 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On impl blocks, injection and surjection in Rust as a story · 1 points
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